Subject: Sports » Hockey (Page 4)

We know he is a one-dimensional player, but it’s the dimension we don’t have.

Canadian sports broadcaster

They do a lot of talking, but I'm not sure they actually understand each other.

Canadian hockey player

You can always get someone to do your thinking for you.

(1928 – ) Canadian professional ice hockey player

A fast body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.


(1897 – 1976) American novelist, short story & sports writer

The only way we could have, was to have shot him before the game started.

Canadian hockey player & coach

He said he wanted to go play in his home country and village; I guess every village needs an idiot.

Give blood. Play hockey. 

I guess it's why you never say never. The only thing you can never do is ski through a revolving door.

hockey coach

I just tape four Tylenols to it.

Russian hockey player

They say something to me sometimes. But I don't understand all the words yet. So I smile at them and then I go score goal.

Russian hockey player

Hockey would be a great game… if played in the mud.

(1909 – 1973) American sports journalist

The weak teams are Boston and New York; the strong ones are Toronto, Chicago, Montreal, and Gordie Howe.

professional hockey player

I’m really no different than anybody else; except that sometimes I get my name in the paper.

Canadian professional hockey player

No, I don't fight anybody I played against in Juniors. I think everyone I played Juniors with is dead now.

Canadian hockey player & coach

Really, there are none. We traded him for a 10th round pick in a nine-round draft.

professional hockey player

Two people fighting is not violence in hockey. It might be in tennis or bowling, but it's not in hockey.

Canadian hockey goalie & coach

Ever since he’s been a little boo-aw.

Canadian hockey coach

Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept. 

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

There are certain things about my game I don't want to change, but I think it's about time that I realized I can't fight every battle. Three hundred minutes in penalties is way too many. Way too many.

Canadian hockey player

You can throw anything in our house, but we’ll just let it roll off our backs

Basketball players get the girls, hockey players take them home.